Mangalore: Car Driver on Phone Narrowly Misses Crash, Escapes from Scene

Pics: Brijesh Garodi
Daijiworld Media Netwrok - Mangalore

Mangalore, Jan 9: A major tragedy was averted at Kudkorigudda near Kankanady here on Wednesday January 9 at around 3:30 pm, when a bus just missed hitting a car and instead rammed into an electric pole.

A KSRTC bus returning to city from Mani, almost packed with passengers, was nearing Kudkorigudda. At the same time, a Ford Ikon car was on its way towards the main road from a lane on the left.

The car driver, however, was reportedly busy talking on his mobile phone and did not notice the bus heading towards him. Luckily for him, the bus driver noticed the car and in the nick of time veered to his right to avoid collision.

However, while avoiding collision with the car, the bus rammed into an electric pole.

The car driver, perhaps realizing his fault and in a state of panic, reversed his car and fled the scene.

Nevertheless, the determined bus driver and the public, who were firm on their stand that it was the car driver's mistake, went in search of him. Some of the passengers joined in the hunt for the missing car and its driver.

They were finally successful in tracing him, and found that he had moved his car to a parking lot of an unknown apartment in a bid to escape.

But the most amusing part was yet to come.

On enquiring, the car driver blatantly denied his involvement and insisted that he was not even at the scene of the accident, and that he was totally unaware of what had happened! Tension prevailed for a few minutes as there was a verbal fight between the car driver and the others. His car's number was noted down for further legal procedures. The matter cooled down after the intervention of police.

The bus was finally taken to the east traffic police station, Kadri, and further investigations are on.